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What were the moist common pistols used by Americans during the revolution?
- Thread starter cwalk13
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Glock 18s
Flintlocks
Pistols were relatively rare as infantry weapons - they were rich men's weapons - during the Revolutionary War. Some Continental Army cavalry units were issued with pistols in view of the difficulty of using longer firearms.
While rifling of hand weapons started to appear in about the 1730's with the Queen Anne's Pistol, they were initially expensive and only manufactured in Europe. By the time of the Revolutionary war, Kentucky Flintlock pistols were available to the revolutionaries (which were also rifled) but the manufacturing cost of the pistols would have been comparable to the cost of a rifle.
Regardless of whether rifled or not, all of the pistols that were present would have been flintlocks.
Some firearms that were called pistols were much closer to carbines in length (such as the Hessian Dragoon Pistols), but what we would consider today to be pistols were known then as 'Holster Pistols', and the case of cavalry, 'horse pistols'.
Kentucky Rifled Pistol (Replica)
While rifling of hand weapons started to appear in about the 1730's with the Queen Anne's Pistol, they were initially expensive and only manufactured in Europe. By the time of the Revolutionary war, Kentucky Flintlock pistols were available to the revolutionaries (which were also rifled) but the manufacturing cost of the pistols would have been comparable to the cost of a rifle.
Regardless of whether rifled or not, all of the pistols that were present would have been flintlocks.
Some firearms that were called pistols were much closer to carbines in length (such as the Hessian Dragoon Pistols), but what we would consider today to be pistols were known then as 'Holster Pistols', and the case of cavalry, 'horse pistols'.
Kentucky Rifled Pistol (Replica)
